Raspberry Pi Gets Its Own 7 Inch DSI Screen

Today users of the credit card-sized computers can purchase the 7 inch DSI screen for $70, as the Raspberry Pi Foundation formally made the announcement yesterday.

The organization has been working on a display for the Raspberry Pi for a while now, but faced some challenges along the way. But now the screen is available and ready to plug-in to Pi boards across the world.

One of the features of the monitor includes the ability to connect to the Pi using the DSI connector, this frees up on-board HDMI connector so that dual screens may be used. It will be interesting to see what creative concept that people come up with now that there is a native monitor for the Pi.

Take a look at some of the specifications:

7” Touchscreen Display.

Screen Dimensions: 194mm x 110mm x 20mm (including standoffs)

Viewable screen size: 155mm x 86mm

Screen Resolution 800 x 480 pixels

10 finger capacitive touch.

Connects to the Raspberry Pi board using a ribbon cable connected to the DSI port.

Adapter board is used to power the display and convert the parallel signals from the display to the serial (DSI) port on the Raspberry Pi.